 Russians start using grenades with deadly toxins in Ukraine. Russian troops have begun to use chemical weapons at the front, more often in particular a new type of grenade with poisonous substances according to Captain Andrew Rudick, representative of the Center for Research of Trophy and Advanced Weapons and Military Equipment of Ukraine. In December the use of the RGVO grenade was recorded for the first time. This grenade contains chloroacetofenone, an asphyxiating substance prohibited by the Geneva Protocol on the use of asphyxiating poisonous or other gases in warfare, says Rudick. The Center for Research of Trophy and Advanced Weapons and Military Equipment suggests that if it gets into a room or dugout five minutes is enough to kill people there. The tested sample was manufactured in 2023 at a plant that has been operating since the Soviet Union era. Thus in 2017 Russia lied about fulfilling its obligations under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, according to which it was supposed to destroy the weapons themselves and the production facilities where they were manufactured. The Center's representative emphasizes he suggests that Russia is now trying to study the reaction of the international community to expand the range of chemical weapons use in the future. In December 2023 alone 81 such cases of gas grenades were recorded. In total since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine there have been 626 cases of chemical attacks against Ukrainian defenders.